36 new special patrol officers declared by Columbia University last month were appointed by the New York Police Department and would be subject to the orders of the Commissioner of Police, a spokesperson from Columbia confirmed this week.
Columbia leaders applied for peace officials last year for the city Police Commissioner, when they had called twice in NYPD, which was called to arrest the Palestinian student protesters who established an unauthorized tent on a campus lawn in the previous spring and stopped themselves inside an academic building.
Columbia spokesman Samantha Slater said that the new officials went through the NYPD application process under the law of New York State Peace Officers, which allows individuals and corporations to apply to the NYPD commissioner to appoint their employees as special patrol officers. If approved, the appointed officers acquire equal powers of arrest and use physical force as police officers.
Slater wrote in an email in response to the questions of the Reuters, “These laws give Colombia the rights of special patrol officers with the appointment of a Police Commissioner.” “There are individuals in Colombia who meet other requirements in the law such as a long training program and the application process of NYPD.”
He said that special patrol officers were authorized under the Administrative Code of New York City that they would “be subject to the orders of the commissioner and follow the rules and regulations of the department and in line with its general discipline.”
Under the city law, Colombia pays for the salary of the training and the salary of officers appointed by NYPD, and remain employees of Colombia. But they will “discharge all powers and all duties” of regular NYPD patrol officers. Columbia officials should report any summons that they issue and bring anyone who they arrest for local NYPD.
Columbia said that those who are arrested will be processed in about 20 blocks from the main manhattan complex of about 20 blocks in an office in the Colombia campus.
After the publication of this article, Slater, spokesperson, Colombia spokesperson, disputed the characterization of laws and emphasized that the officers were employees of Columbia.
Slater wrote in an email, “They were employed, chosen, employed and funded by Columbia.”
Reuters could not install complete details independently how Colombia officials have gone through work and NYPD appointment process.
A NYPD spokesperson said that patrol officers would be unarmed, but refused to answer other questions. The new officers will have to complete 162 hours of state-attested training, and Colombia said, and should be sworn in by the Commissioner of Police under the law. They will then be able to patrol Colombia’s private -owned buildings and cows and lawns, which regular NYPD officials are usually not able to do.
In the previous spring, Colombia became a Palestinian student protest movement, which has stopped complexes worldwide, both Democratic and Republican politicians, donors and some students and faculty.
Columbia’s trustees boards and 111 students, employees and alumni who form the university Senate are often the best ways to handle protests.
The trustee board last week appointed Claire Shipman, president of the Interim University, its co-chairman, Claire Shipman.
New officers of Columbia have equal powers of warrantless discovery and arrest as any other police officer under the New York Peace Officer Act. State law allows officials to “use physical force and fatal physical force or use fatal physical force to prevent or prevent migration.”
Slater said that the officers will work with the public safety office of the university, but – unlike 117 civil security staff of Columbia – “There would be powers to remove individuals from the campus, issue quotes and arrest if necessary and if necessary.”
The plan was going on before returning to US President Donald Trump White House. His administration, stating that on campus and with it, is described as antisementic harassment, last month demanded that Columbia tightened his protest rules or permanently lost federal funding. One of the nine demands was that the school deployed peace officials with arrest powers.
This week, Columbia’s Public Safety Office updated its website, stating that the new officers would “reduce our dependence on NYPD, allowing the campus disruption more effectively and immediately to respond.”
Senate members, rules -making bodies who share the university rule with trustees, said that the trustees and the office of the President had informed them that Columbia was demanding recruitment of peace officials, but he did not say that there is no participation among the NYPD patrol officers that they have hired.
Dr. Genin D’Armianto, a professor at Medicine and Chairman of the Senate Executive Committee, and two other senators did not name, told the Reuters that the President’s office had repeatedly refused to tell them that they were authorizing officers in the New York government.
Columbia’s Slater said that the university was complying with all its bylaws and the post-publication letter stated, “The fact that Columbia wanted to expand its security team with peace officials, it has not been secret.”
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